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What is OpenText UFT One?
Unified Functional Testing (UFT, formerly known as HP UFT and before that QuickTest Professional or HP QTP) is a functional and performance testing tool acquired by Micro Focus from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, now from OpenText.
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Unified Functional Testing (UFT, formerly known as HP UFT and before that QuickTest Professional or HP QTP) is a functional and performance testing tool acquired by Micro Focus from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, now from OpenText.
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Unified Functional Testing (UFT, formerly known as HP UFT and before that QuickTest Professional or HP QTP) is a functional and performance testing tool acquired by Micro Focus from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, now from OpenText.
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HP UFT, or Unified Functional Testing, has been widely utilized for automation across various organizations and projects. Users have employed it for different types of testing, including desktop application testing, cross-browser testing, and API testing. UFT one has been implemented to create a stable automation framework for multiple ways of maintenance and execution. Users have heavily implemented UFT one in ERP, Mainframe, and other ERP web applications. With UFT one, automation developers can implement clear logic using programming snippets to pass or fail scenarios. The BPT framework can be leveraged with UFT one, and it can be executed through third-party tools like Jenkins, Postman, and MF ALM.
HP UFT has been used to automate regression and functional test cases, reducing time to market and increasing delivery quality. It has been chosen based on the skill level of the existing QA team and compatibility with back-end and web service testing. The QA team quickly became proficient in UFT and automated over 2000 regression test cases in four months. HP UFT is mainly used for DevOps activities, including automated tests and continuous integration for multiple applications/products. It integrates with HP ALM for requirements management and JIRA for defect tracking.
HP UFT allows users to work with databases, execute against web services and REST services, and perform UI tests for web. Integration with HP Loadrunner enables performance testing. It is used for test automation projects across various applications, including mainframe, web, and desktop-based applications. HP UFT is also used by the testing team to automate regression testing for application implementations or enhancements on platforms like Salesforce, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or SAP. Automated tests with UFT allow multiple regression cycles to be executed without allocating testers to the task. Moreover, UFT has been used to convert a large regression suite into a robust automation suite that runs unattended for the IT department.
Simple Front End: Novice users have found the simple front end of UFT to be helpful for easily grasping the basics of automation and gaining confidence in using the tool.
Scalability: Users appreciate UFT's ability to scale up and run tests across multiple machines from a single controller, such as ALM. This capability allows them to execute hundreds of tests overnight, saving time and effort.
Active Support Community: The active support community surrounding UFT, consisting of both official HPE sources and independent users, provides a valuable resource for getting help and assistance when encountering problems with the tool. Many users have benefited from this supportive network.
Expensive Cost: Some users have found the cost of the software to be expensive, especially for startups or small organizations. They feel that the pricing makes it a very expensive tool and suggest that HP should consider offering more cost-effective alternatives.
Script Maintenance and Resource Consumption: Users report that maintaining test scripts is a pain and mention that the software is not lightweight, consuming a lot of memory. They find it frustrating when the software breaks, causing them frustration due to its simplicity of record and playback.
Limited Cross-Browser Compatibility: Some users have mentioned that UFT should improve in terms of cross-browser compatibility and supporting different operating systems, particularly Mac OS. They find frequent browser crashing issues during long execution cycles to be problematic.
Users recommend UFT for automating various applications because it covers all their needs and is easy to use. They suggest trying the trial version before purchasing and advise self-exploration. Despite acknowledging its high cost, users consider UFT as the best tool in the market for automation purposes. One user specifically highlights its usefulness for end-to-end test automation of ERP solutions as it can save time and money. However, there is a cautionary recommendation from another user who warns against purchasing the product, stating that it is unfinished and contains errors.
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June 29, 2022
Veera UFT One review
- Handle all types of scenarios
- Integration with other 3rd party tools
- Prepare sold framework
- Supports many applications and environments
- Sometimes UFT one is crashing when connected to ALM.
- Provide few pre-build frameworks when BPT component integrated with UFT One.
- Need to validate license cost.
- Built in object repository and storing elements.
- Reporting dashboards.
- Continuous integration is possible with QC and Jenkins.
- Supports desktop, web and mobile product automation.
- Various formats of reporting support should be possible. Right now UFT supports exporting reports in either HTML or PDF in short or detailed format. If exporting reports could be extended to Excel, CSV, XML, XSLT, MHT formats that would be greatly appreciated.
- They should improve performance. There will be performance degradation on the test environment due to long continuous executions of automation scripts which leads to inconsistency of results, a better way to resolve this problem should be addressed at some point.
- Consistency during execution should be maintained.
April 29, 2019
UFT usage review
- With a single tool we can automate MF, Web based and desktop based applications which is a plus.
- It saves considerable amount of time & effort.
- Multi-User variable license helps to achieve simultaneous usage.
- Very expensive
- Sometimes object recognition doesn't work as expected
- PDF applications are not able to be automated
March 15, 2018
HP UFT - Game changer in Agile Automation
- Integration & Support: a) The way tool integrates with other platforms like .net, mainframe is amazing. It Supports new and legacy web technologies, terminal emulators, and Windows thick client applications. b) It Supports Continuous integration by integrating with Jenkins, Git etc. c) UFT supports cross browser testing & it supports all main browsers like IE, Firefox, Chrome and Apple Safari. d)It’s compatibility with ALM can help store automation execution results back in ALM & even allows us to schedule the automation execution at required date/time.
- Amazing Features: UFT has so many features but at the same time, it is quite easy to learn & it doesn’t take long to train staff on it. Few amazing features which adds lot of value while scripting are:
- a) Test Combinations Generator (TCG) - It helps to create test configurations by using the parameters in tests and their possible values to create multiple possible data combinations.
- b) Insight Recording – It recognizes controls based on their appearance and not their native properties. This can be useful to test controls from an environment that UFT does not support or even from a remote computer running a non-Windows operating system. When UFT runs the test or component, it recognizes the controls in the application by matching them to the images saved with each of the Insight test objects.
- c) UFT has built in reporting features as well as allowing for customized output files showing exactly where a test step failed along with the timestamp.
- UFT supports BPT (Business Process Testing), a component-based testing framework which provides strong and efficient platform to test complete business process manually and automatically combines manual and automation tests with less duplication and its component reusability feature makes the testing process very fast.
- It helps improving efficiency in regression testing and functional testing, in that we automate a lot of repeatable tasks.
- Organization doesn’t need to have a skilled coder to write a basic automation script with UFT.
- Though the scripting time is less since its easy to create automation scripts, the execution time is relatively higher as it takes the lot of CPU & RAM.
- Though UFT is quite stable but during long execution cycles we do get frequent browser crashing issues.
- In terms of costing TestComplete is also one option which is not free but comes with modular pricing. You can buy what you need, when you need.
October 26, 2017
HP UFT - review from an expert
- Supports multiple technologies.
- Extensive forum, multiple sources of assistance, help and guidance.
- Flexible in terms of test script design
- Can be easily integrated with widely used test management tool, HP-ALM.
- Maintenance of Test script is a pain.
- Not futuristic. Not many innovative features have been added.
- Not lightweight; consumes lots of memory.
May 10, 2017
HPE UFT, still going strong after all this time
- The simple front end will allow novice users to easily grasp the basics of automation and give them confidence to try things for themselves.
- UFT can scale up and run across multiple machines from a single controller, such as ALM, enabling hundreds of tests to be executed overnight.
- There is an active support community out there, both official HPE based and independent users. This means if you do encounter a problem there is always someone out there to help you.
- The later versions have many add-ins to plug in to other tools within the QA world.
- Expert users are able to utilise the many native functions and also build their own to get the most out of the tool and impress people as they walk past and see the magic happening on the screen.
- UFT also has LeanFT bundled with it, allowing automated testing at the api level - if you can convince the developers to let you in there.
- It is expensive, though different license offerings can help negate some cost.
- Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of record and playback because it will break and may cause you to lose heart and the standard HP guides only hit the basics.
- It is based on VBscript and so the language and underpinning tech is slightly dated but still works fine.
April 25, 2017
More Sugar More Sweet
- One automation tool is capable of handling different types of testing, ex: API testing, desktop application testing, browser testing, Mobile testing etc.
- NO other tools in the market currently support everything in one tool, ex: detailed results, screenshots, and saving and forwarding the execution result.
- Very expensive tool for startup or small organization. HP should offer different payment plans and different package.
- UFT should improve more in the cross browser compatibility side and different OS platform.
- Should improve in supporting MAC OS system
April 19, 2017
Automating using Automation Test Tools - HP UTF (QTP)
- Testing both GUI and backend processes in conjunction with other tools in the HP Toolset, i.e. Loadrunner & HP ALM.
- Using REST & web services (XML, SOAP), is relatively easier when you can scan in the WSDL files.
- Unable to build tests using programming languages like Java or C#.
- Lock-in access with ALM licenses can create a problem and hinders users who are working only on testing to not be able to use the tool.
- If the organization does not have an experienced HP Toolset user, things can get messy quite fast and It creates confusion for users who come in later.
- Organization within the ALM tool and the UTF tool to work in a Agile centric environment are lacking. Too much of customization needs to be carried out for it to work properly.
April 14, 2017
Enterprise grade product!!
- Object recognition
- Planning and execution of scripts
- Portability from HPE Sprinter
- HPE UFT shall support new languages like Ruby on Rails or Python
- More support for iOS and Android native apps
July 22, 2016
HP UFT Works!!!
- Uses VB script, which is a very simple programming language to use and follow
- It integrates well with ALM, we used the BPT model for our automation
- UFT has GUI and API testing both in it, so you can use one tool for GUI and Web services testing
- UFT integrates with ALM, and the tests run efficiently on IE, but running on other browsers is not that effective.
- Mobile testing enhancement - it needs to support mobile testing. We had to use another tool for mobile testing
- Maintaining the licenses - very expensive and not very easy to get support from HP
April 30, 2016
The best tool for test Automation hands down
- HP UFT is probably the best tool to do test automation. The support for multiple platforms and how easy it is to learn and use it make it one of the top choices when it comes to automating tests.
- For data driven testing of business processes or test scenarios that require multiple executions but with the use of different sets of data for each execution, HP UFT is one of the best choices because the handling of data tables.
- The record and play feature is really good, where testers can just start recording on HP UFT and execute the business process or test scenario while HP UFT records all the actions, those tests can be further enhanced by "parameterization" of inputs and outputs and the use of multiple rows of data for each test execution.
- The main complaint for companies when adopting the use of HP UFT is the pricing. Yes, HP UFT has never been a cheap tool and it was the go-to solution for test automation for years, however there are now multiple tools now that do automation that are much cheaper or even free.
- While the record and replay feature is really good and keeps getting smarter, in some cases the created tests need to be manually modified with the use of VBscript, new applications and platforms introduce new object definitions or types that sometimes HP UFT cannot natively support